Agree... <t>With JO'Co here and his remarks on Ark. I watched both USC/ARK games and Arkansas did quit in the LA game. They were awful again this year but they have turned their season around before LSU finished them off Friday.<br/> As for ND I will continue to beat this horse until CW can get the defense on track the Irish will not beat the top 5 type programs. Do I think they will get it corrected maybe. It won't be from lack of effort just can they get enough of the type athlete they faced Saturday? We shall see in February.</t>
"You know, you do a lot throw a lot of stones considering that your team never seems to leave their own back yard. USC has destroyed people, especially in big games, for the past several years now. This year has been no different. " Corey...I'm calling you out on this one. I thought about it and it hit me! For ND...who plays in the "independent" conference if you will....Michigan and USC are the same kind of regular conference opponents as LSU and Tenn are for Florida. There is really no difference at all....just a different "conference" schedule for both the Gators and the Irish. Don't try telling me there is a difference. So...ND leaves it's back yard to play USC ( or stays in it and plays Mich) and UF leaves it's back yard to play Tenn or Auburn ( or stays in it and plays LSU). You get my point?
"Chris Leak versus Arkansas 2003: UF 33 ARK 28 (Fayetteville) Chris Leak threw for a then-career high 269 yards and Keiwan Ratliff intercepted three passes and returned one for a touchdown as Florida fended off a late rally by No. 11 Arkansas. With the win, Florida defeated three-consecutive ranked teams in three consecutive road games for the first time in school history. Anybody know when was the last time ND or USC beat three ranked teams on the road in consecutive games? But then again...we know UF doesn't travel well because I read it right here on Skybox. :lol:
I don't recall reading anybody's post saying that Florida doesn't travel well... I think they said they'd like to find out. Seriously, that is pretty impressive in terms of road wins...you played a lot of ranked teams that year.
......... <t>that's like asking for credit for travelling from your sofa, to your fridge to the garage.<br/> <br/> wow. you beat 3 ranked teams, most of whom dont travel either. once again we are left to believe the legend.<br/> <br/> as for me, sometimes i think its true and other times not.</t>
i went back and looked at that, since i have a few free minutes. who were the 3 ranked teams? In the 2003 season: -you got beat on the road at Miami -You beat kentucky on the road 24-21 -You beat LSU 19-7 on the road -You beat Arkansas 33-28 So who are they? Was Kentucky ranked?? That team finished 4-8 and had a 2-2 record coming into the Florida game? Without bothering with the rankings (because you can say they were ranked 'at the time' or 'at the end of the year', but last year Notre Dame beat: Pitt at Pitt 42-21 Michigan at Michigan 17-10 Washington at Washington 36-17 Purdue at Purdue 49-28 I do believe that ND was favored to lose most of those games coming in by the pundits. In 02 ND beat MD, Michigan State and Florida State all consecutively on the road. The Davie years were plagued with winning games and then losing some random game they should win and winning others. Even Davie and Willingham managed to have roadie wins in Knoxville and Baton Rouge.
Actually Corey Florida won at eventual national champion LSU in Baton Rouge, beat #11 Arkansas and then followed up with a win over #4 Georgia in Jax...not in Athens but also not in Gainesville. UF was only 8-5 that year...not impressive. These three wins though were pretty damned impressive to just about anyone but you. And just so you know.....I could give a S*** if you are impressed or not. One thing....UF beat Miami ON THE ROAD in the 80s when that was Miami's only loss and they won the National Championship that year. In 2003 Florida was the only loss for LSU... ON THE ROAD...and the Tigers were the National Champion that year. Can you even think of one team in the history of college football who has beat the eventual National Champion at their stadium TWICE in the span of 20 years or maybe ever? I'm willing to bet that is a big NO. But as you say when ND travels 200 miles up the road to play Michigan that is a really big deal....and when UF goes 500 miles to Knoxville that is crap in your mind. I think you are geographically challenged is what I think. Catch my drift....That's just a bunch of B/S......
nope <r>not what i was saying at all.<br/> <br/> LSU 'won' only half an NC that year. Remember, this BCS system that you claim is such a sham 'gave' LSU part of the NC. The only poll that had the free will to determine a champion awarded their national championship to USC. Using any and all 'logic' that you've attempted to apply over the past 2 weeks here, you have to admit that LSU is/was a bullsh*t national champ that year.<br/> <br/> But you are dodging my real question here: 'Who were the 3 straight ranked teams you beat on the road if Arkansas was the 3rd?'<br/> <br/> Are you now trying to say that Georgia was the 3rd road game? Are you now trying to say the Georgia game isn't a neutral site game?<br/> <br/> BTW-Florida beat Miami IN GAINESVILLE in 1983, so unless there has been a major campus switch that took place involving the U, I'd say your BS is starting to pile up.<br/> <QUOTE><s> </e></QUOTE> And no one said going to Knoxville is easy. But you wanna cookie for going 500 miles that the conference MAKES you play. That sort of distance is chump change in the Pac10. Hell since you wanted to kick ND, they travel 2000 miles each year to play at least one opponent on one trip. But again, you can't be bothered with things like that.<br/> <br/> Oh, did that 4 loss Arkansas team really finish ranked 11th?</r>
I checked and it was 1985 in Miami that UF won over an eventual 10-2 but not NC Miami. In 1983 it was in Gainesville but it was the canes only loss in their inaugural NC year. You're quite a stretch when you suggest that somehow a 19-7 over LSU in Baton Rouge...when they....OK..."shared" the national title is anything but stupendous. With regard to Ga being the third in the string I don't think you carefully read my last post. The info I originally posted from another source was wrong in that it was not in Athens...but it was not at home either. You my man are the one that grasps at straws because...... .............I'm just waiting for your twisted interpretations to kick in... .....you will dismiss the entire string of three great away wins ..... because.......the third one was in Jax, FLORIDA. Therefore the other two don't count in your book and the fact that 40,000 screaming Bulldog fans were in Jax that day for the 4th ranked Bulldogs means nothing to you...it was a home game for Florida in your book.
hey now <t>you were the one calling ND fans out. I was just calling you on the BS and bad sources.<br/> <br/> That was a great win over co-champ LSU. <br/> <br/> But Kentucky was terrible that year and Arkansas didn't finish ranked 11th. I believe they were unranked and finished the year with an Indy Bowl win over Missouri.<br/> <br/> That is a far, far stretch from your original claim.<br/> <br/> And I love how you boast of the '40,000 screaming Georgia fans' while kindly neglecting to mention the 40,000 screaming Florida fans. That's a hell of an omission.<br/> <br/> I'm not grasping straws, I'm shooting skeet.</t>
You're a bad shot. I never claimed Kentucky was ranked. I did quote an incorrect source because Ark was the second in the string and not the third and Ga was the third but not in Athens. If you ever went to a Ga-Fla game you would see there is no home field advantage for either team. I did correct this two posts ago. In any event I went through the exercise of comparing ND's true away "non-conference" games ( teams seldom played - not annual or almost annual opponents) ) that were on the road and the record of those teams was better than those played by Ohio State but not nearly as good as UF's non-con road foes since 1990. ND's road "non-con" foes since 1990: 163-122 .58 winning % UF's road non-con foes since 1990: 90-22 .81 winning %
Above quote copied from another topic So which is it there MCG? Is Georgia in Jacksonville a true road game?
Georgia-Fla in Jax is not a true road game for either team. It is a neutral site game with an exact even distribution of fans for both teams. I recall when UF won those three in a row it was written about at the time as three games in a row vs. ranked teams away from Florida Field. Of course the first two were true road games.